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• February 20, 2026

  Discord Caused Child To Stream Suicide For Cult, Parents Say

  Discord Inc.'s failure to properly police its online platform enabled a sadistic cult focused on child abuse to convince a 13-year-old trans user to end his life as part of a suicide pact, according to a Washington state lawsuit filed Thursday.

• February 20, 2026

  Social Media Cases Atty In Hot Water Over Courthouse Filming

  A Los Angeles judge on Friday ripped into an attorney for the plaintiff in a bellwether suit alleging Meta and Google's social media platforms harm childrens' mental health, stripping the attorney of his seat on the plaintiffs' steering committee for violating court rules by twice filming inside the courthouse.

• February 20, 2026

  Wireless Builders Want FCC Kibosh On Dish 'Shell Games'

  Dish Network has reneged on its promise to build a 5G network, and with that pledge rescinded, it has stopped paying the companies that were supposed to be doing the build out, placing all their operations at risk, those companies told the Federal Communications Commission.

• February 20, 2026

  Credit One Bank Pays $10M In Calif. DAs' Suit Over Debt Calls

  Credit One Bank will pay $10.2 million to settle a lawsuit from a group of California district attorneys alleging it inundated consumers with excessive debt collection calls, even when they had no account with the bank, three years after the Ninth Circuit held that district attorneys can sue banks over such calls.

• February 20, 2026

  Squires Sinks 2 PTAB Challenges, Including 1 He Instituted

  U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has reversed his own decision and another made by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to institute a pair of America Invents Act petitions, citing what he called the challengers' inconsistent claim construction.

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